Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister Teixeira Lott was again the man in charge, and again his avowed purpose in calling out the troops was to defend the constitution against Brazil's so-called golpistas: the military-civilian faction that favors a golpe (coup) to keep President-elect Ju-scelino Kubitschek and leftist Vice President-elect Joao ("Jango") Goulart from taking office next January. Teixeira Lott reportedly has no burning admiration for Kubitschek, but he considers himself duty bound to see to it that the presidential candidate who won the most votes in October's election is duly inaugurated...
...still editor of the fellow-traveling U.S. weekly National Guardian, recently visited the Swiss home of another exile from the U.S., veteran (66) Cine-comedian Charlie Chaplin, an ex-resident of Hollywood since 1952. The two Britons chatted candidly and parted amicably. Last week, however, Belfrage, without leave from Leftist Chaplin, tattled on Charlie in the Guardian. According to Belfrage, Chaplin now detests America, his homeland for some 40 years. Chaplin was quoted as saying: "I no longer have any use for America at all. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President...
Soldier. Rose to lieutenant colonel in artillery and infantry commands under the post-1944 leftist government, with time out for study at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. and West Point. Bvoke with the government after the 1949 assassination of his friend and patron, anti-Communist Colonel Francisco Arana, Arbenz' main rival for the presidency...
...books. His heroes are usually found struggling in the toils of nature and landed ogres, dying in blizzards, falling with boot-broken backs. First Icelander ever to win a Nobel Prize, he hoped that Iceland's tax collectors "will leave me 10% for brandy." Early next month, Leftist Laxness will get his gold medal, diploma and $36.720 jackpot from Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf...
...Judas of Fast's title story is a backslid leftist playwright named Harvey Crane. For an imminent production, he has raised $300,000 (a multiple of the 30 pieces of silver, and thus a big symbol). Then he is asked to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, whose chairman may be assumed to be Pontius Pilate. Hollywood is the fleshpots of imperial Rome. Villainous lawyers and venal politicians ("For a thousand dollars you can buy a Senator") gnash their teeth in the wings, and of course Judas Crane lets his old party pal have it (after...